Concert and Conversation
Sunday May 9th at 7pm ET
Streamed via: www.youtube.com/Rumbarroco or www.facebook.com/Rumbarroco

This program features Ibero-American dances and song-dances, including folias, jácaras, and fandangos, from the Renaissance to the present. The music spans the early Spanish Cancioneros (songbooks) in old Iberia to contemporary folk and popular music from Venezuela and Mexico.

Dances such as the joropo from Venezuela and Colombia and the Fandango Jarocho from Mexico are featured. Performers will switch from the European viola da gamba and Renaissance guitar to the Venezuelan cuatro and harp, to illustrate the similar yet distinct sonorities and rhythmic and harmonic connections between Europe and the Americas, as well as the African and Afro-American connections.